[nfbmi-talk] Re Blind Vet
Heather Bowman-Tomlinson
heatherbt at mac.com
Wed Oct 22 20:15:00 UTC 2014
One of the guys who goes to the Birmingham practice is a Veteran. I took the liberty of asking him and he said he would do it.
Contact me off list and I will share his info.
Heather.
I may not be perfectly wise, perfectly witty, or perfectly wonderful, but I am always perfectly me. Anon.
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> 1. Fw: Thank you for your message (joe harcz Comcast)
> 2. Fw: still not responded to (joe harcz Comcast)
> 3. Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BSBP Grant
> for $900, 000 (joe harcz Comcast)
> 4. Space Available Bill (Larry Posont)
> 5. Re: Space Available Bill (Terry D. Eagle)
> 6. Re: Space Available Bill (joe harcz Comcast)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:34:43 -0400
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: Thank you for your message
> Message-ID: <9F5EB3F265E148CB8650E3DDC14B7F6B at YOUR7C60552B9E>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: joe harcz Comcast
> To: McManus, Craig
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Thank you for your message
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>
> You sir aauthorized the grant in question. That much I could read. Now why in the world are you increasing funding to a violator of virtually everything in the Rehab Act including access to timely information by the very VR entity supposedly serving the blind>?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: McManus, Craig
> To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) ; joe harcz Comcast
> Cc: Cavataio, Christyne
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:31 PM
> Subject: Thank you for your message
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> Good Day,
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> Thank you for your recent email. It has been forwarded to Christy Cavataio, the Rehabilitation Services Administration liaison for the state of Michigan, for her review. Christy may be contacted at Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov.
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> Sincerely,
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>
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> Craig McManus
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> Financial Management Specialist
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> Rehabilitation Services Administration
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> 550 12th Street, S.W.
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> Washington, DC 20202
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> craig.mcmanus at ed.gov
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:31:45 -0400
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: still not responded to
> Message-ID: <A2A9FF06912E4796B651670C1F99128E at YOUR7C60552B9E>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: joe harcz Comcast
> To: Ed Rodgers BSBP Dir.
> Cc: Mike Pemble BSBP Dep. Dir. ; Sue Luzenski BSBP Adm. Ass. ; katie belknap bsbp ; bsbpcommissioners at michigan.gov ; Gary Gaynor ; commissioner-hudson at outlook.com ; Elmer Cerano MPAS ; MARK MCWILLIAMS MPAS ; BRIAN SABOURIN ; Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir. ; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov ; Sarah Gravetti silc mcrs mcil
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:08 PM
> Subject: still not responded to
>
>
> October 21 2014 Reiterated BSBP BEP Training and ADA Violations
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>
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> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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> 1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
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> Mt. Morris, MI 48458
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> joeharcz at comcast.net
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> 810-516-5262
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> To:
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> Edward Rodgers, Director
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> Mich. Bureau Services for Blind Persons
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> Mike Pemble, Deputy Director
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> (Via e-mail)
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> Dear Mr. Rodgers,
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> After my signature line please note but one of many requests for information and for information in accessible format (simple e-mail) and a timely manner as is required by the ADA and Section 504. To date I?ve yet to even receive a response which certainly isn?t timely and let me assure you that a failure to respond, let alone remit, a reasonable accommodation under the ADA/504 is a violation in and of itself!
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> Thus this stands as evidence amongst others of a pattern and practice of known violations of civil rights and part of a continued complaint against your person who has illegally discriminated against me personally, with malice of forethought, in documented fashion since you assumed your $126,000 per year position as Director of BSBP, the very agency that is supposed to promote accessible information and is supposed to be accessible and non-discriminatory to all people who are blind.
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> Sincerely,
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> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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>
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> Cc: MPAS
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> Cc: NFB, MI
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> Cc: BSBP Commissioners
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> Cc: several
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> July 31 2014 on BEP and other Training
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> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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> 1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
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> Mt. Morris, MI 48458
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> joeharcz at comcast.net
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> To: Edward Rodgers
>
> Director
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> Mich. Bureau Services to Blind Persons
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> (via e-mail)
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>
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> Dear Mr. Rodgers,
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>
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> I point your attention to the following expenditure which was made for training of Business Enterprise Operators:
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> ?Payments to JERRY A MCVETY by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS for fiscal year 2014
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> Table with 4 columns and 2 rows
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> Agency Name
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> Category Description
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> Warrant Date
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> Payments Total
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> LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
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> Contractual Services Supplies and Materials
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> 4/21/2014
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> $25,500.00?
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> Now you, the agency and LARA through press releases and other notices have claimed that the highly funded Business Assistance and Development Program in the Anderson Building would also be used as ?training?.
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> I?m quite confused when I see hundreds of thousands of Vocational Rehabilitation Act funds go round and round the proverbial Merry-Go-Round with no accountability.
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> So could you please explain these contradictions?
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> Sincerely,
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> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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> Cc: BSBP Commissioners
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> Cc: MCRS
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> Cc: NFB MI
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> Cc: RSA
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:18:21 -0400
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir." <marlene at mcrs13.org>, Sarah Gravetti
> silc mcrs mcil <SARA at dnmichigan.org>, Michael Poyma VA MCRS
> <michael.poyma at va.gov>, Gary Gaynor <gary at viic.org>,
> Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov, commissioner-hudson at outlook.com, Craig
> McManus RSA <Craig.McManus at ed.gov>, trina edmondson mcrs dac
> <trina.e at dakc.us>, BRIAN SABOURIN <BSABOUR at mpas.org>, Elmer Cerano
> MPAS <ECERANO at mpas.org>, bsbpcommissioners at michigan.gov
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on
> BSBP Grant for $900, 000
> Message-ID: <91E75C29E50A4EB388EDDC37E5CA3858 at YOUR7C60552B9E>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: joe harcz Comcast
> To: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
> Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA)
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BSBP Grant for $900,000
>
>
> Isn't this a bit like RSA giving a heroin addict more heroin Ms. Haynes and all?
>
> I mean there is no and I repeat no accounting for the VR bucks you all have had at your disposal, and huge amounts of those funds have been misappropriated for non-VR activities including feeding non-blind, non-disabled cronies at the federal trough, but very little going to actual rehabilitation of blind customers.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
> To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net)
> Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA)
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 12:13 PM
> Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BSBP Grant for $900,000
>
>
> October 21, 2014
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>
>
> Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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> E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net
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> 1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
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> Mt. Morris, MI 48458
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>
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> Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BSBP RSA Grant
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:
>
>
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> This letter is in response to your October 14, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on October 15, 2014. Please be advised that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP) is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.
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>
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> You have requested information that you describe in your email (which is attached) as:
>
>
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> "At the last BSBP Commission meeting Mr. Pemble told the public that BSBP received an additional grant from RSA, of $900,000 for Vocational Rehabilitation purposes. But, he gave no details. Thus I am invoking Section 504 and indeed the ADA and requesting a copy of said grant forthwith in my most effective format which is to send it to me, in a timely manner and without surcharge, as either a plain text attachment or plain text enclosure to my e-mail address listed above."
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> Your request is granted as to existing, nonexempt information in the possession of the Department. Please find attached to this correspondence the Grant Award Notification from the Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education. This document is an accessible PDF file. If you have any difficulties in reading this file, please let me know.
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> FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.
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> October 21, 2014
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> Page 2 of 2
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> The cost to produce this report is $16.74 (calculated by using $33.48 which is the hourly wage plus fringe benefits of the Department's lowest paid employee capable of processing this request multiplied by the amount of time to process this request which is 1/2 of an hour = $16.74). As this amount is below the Department threshold of $25.00 for charging costs involved in complying with a FOIA request, this FOIA fee is being waived.
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> Please note that nothing within the federal American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA), as amended, or the state's FOIA (MCL 15.231 et seq.) requires a public body to process FOIA requests free of charge. Further, while the ADA and Section 504 of
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> the RA may mandate that, upon request, material be produced in an accessible format without charge, neither the ADA or Section 504 of the RA preclude a public body from charging costs under the state's FOIA. Thusly, please note that no labor fee charges have been, or will be, assessed to convert existing, nonexempt public records responsive to your requests into an accessible format to forward to you.
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> Sincerely,
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>
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>
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> Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator
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> Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
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>
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> Attachment - Grant Award Notification
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>
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> cc: Edward F. Rodgers II
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> Sue Luzenski
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> Mike Pemble
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> Katie Belknap
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> Leamon Jones
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> Diamalyn Gaston
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> From: joe harcz Comcast
>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:02:36 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
>
> To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)
>
> Cc: Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Mike Pemble BSBP Dep. Dir.; Belknap, Katie (LARA); Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; BRIAN SABOURIN; MARK MCWILLIAMS MPAS; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Gary Gaynor; commissioner-hudson at outlook.com; BSBPcommissioners; Tracy Brown
>
> Subject: bsbp rsa grant info request
>
> October 14 2014 Request Grant Information
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
> 1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
>
> Mt. Morris, MI 48458
>
> joeharcz at comcast.net
>
> 810-516-5262
>
>
> To:
>
> Edward Rodgers Director
>
> Mich. Bureau Services to Blind Persons
>
> Mike Pemble, Deputy Director
>
> (Via E-mail)
>
>
> Sirs,
>
>
> At the last BSBP Commission meeting Mr. Pemble told the public that BSBP received an additional grant from RSA, of $900,000 for Vocational Rehabilitation purposes. But, he gave no details. Thus I am invoking Section 504 and indeed the ADA and requesting a copy of said grant forthwith in my most effective format which is to send it to me, in a timely manner and without surcharge, as either a plain text attachment or plain text enclosure to my e-mail address listed above.
>
>
> I thank you as always for your prompt and accessible response.
>
>
> (Note: A failure to promptly respond to a request for a reasonable accommodation and for public information in alternate form is a violation of the ADA and Section 504 itself.)
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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> Cc: NFB MI
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> Cc: BSBP Commission
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> Cc: MCRS
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> Cc: CAP/MPAS
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> Cc: MI SILC
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> Cc: RSA
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> Carla Miller Haynes
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> LARA Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP)
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> 201 N. Washington Square, 2nd Floor
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> P.O. Box 30652
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> Lansing, MI 48909
>
> Telephone: 517-373-2063 or Toll-Free 1-800-292-4200
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> Fax: 517-335-5140
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>
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> www.michigan.gov/bsbp
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:16:37 -0400
> From: Larry Posont <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>
> To: nfbmi-talk <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
> Message-ID:
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> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
> 7189 Connors Rd.
> Munising, MI 49862
>
> October 21, 2014
>
> Dear Michigan Federationists:
>
> I have received a request from the National Office for a service
> disabled Veteran who can help us meet with Senator Levin concerning
> the Space Available Bill. Does anyone know of a blind or otherwise
> Service Disabled Veteran who could assist us? Please put them in
> contact with me or call me with their contact information. My cell
> number is (313)727-3546.
>
> Sincerely,
> Larry Posont
> President
> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
> (906) 387-3546
> Email: president.nfb.mi at gmail.com
> Web page: www.nfbmi.org
>
> Munising home of the beautiful Pictured Rocks.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:58:42 -0400
> From: "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
> To: "'Larry Posont'" <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>, "'NFB of Michigan
> Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
> Message-ID: <32CB743DC76A4E49AAE8CD3CF06B4A5F at TerryPC>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> What about the fellow who was the plaintiff in the Detroit Metro
> transportation lawsuit? I believe I read he is a armed service disabled
> vet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Larry
> Posont via nfbmi-talk
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:17 PM
> To: nfbmi-talk
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
>
> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
> 7189 Connors Rd.
> Munising, MI 49862
>
> October 21, 2014
>
> Dear Michigan Federationists:
>
> I have received a request from the National Office for a service
> disabled Veteran who can help us meet with Senator Levin concerning
> the Space Available Bill. Does anyone know of a blind or otherwise
> Service Disabled Veteran who could assist us? Please put them in
> contact with me or call me with their contact information. My cell
> number is (313)727-3546.
>
> Sincerely,
> Larry Posont
> President
> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
> (906) 387-3546
> Email: president.nfb.mi at gmail.com
> Web page: www.nfbmi.org
>
> Munising home of the beautiful Pictured Rocks.
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:23:45 -0400
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>, "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List"
> <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
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> Michael Harris is the head of Michigan Paralyzed veterans.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry D. Eagle via nfbmi-talk" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "'Larry Posont'" <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>; "'NFB of Michigan
> Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
>
>
>> What about the fellow who was the plaintiff in the Detroit Metro
>> transportation lawsuit? I believe I read he is a armed service disabled
>> vet.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Larry
>> Posont via nfbmi-talk
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:17 PM
>> To: nfbmi-talk
>> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Space Available Bill
>>
>> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
>> 7189 Connors Rd.
>> Munising, MI 49862
>>
>> October 21, 2014
>>
>> Dear Michigan Federationists:
>>
>> I have received a request from the National Office for a service
>> disabled Veteran who can help us meet with Senator Levin concerning
>> the Space Available Bill. Does anyone know of a blind or otherwise
>> Service Disabled Veteran who could assist us? Please put them in
>> contact with me or call me with their contact information. My cell
>> number is (313)727-3546.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Larry Posont
>> President
>> National Federation of the Blind of Michigan
>> (906) 387-3546
>> Email: president.nfb.mi at gmail.com
>> Web page: www.nfbmi.org
>>
>> Munising home of the beautiful Pictured Rocks.
>>
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